Crime & Safety

OMG PD: Family Robbed During Father's Wake & More

Check out these highlights from police logs throughout the Greater Boston area.

A Tewksbury family, already reeling from the untimely death of their husband and father, received another jolt when they returned home after his wake Tuesday night. Their home had been burglarized.

A former Arlington special education administrator has been charged with posing a child in the nude after he allegedly pretended to be a 14-year-old boy and solicited indecent images from a 15-year-old girl in Maine.

Rogerio DaSilva, 45, of Woburn, was arrested at 299 Broadway and charged with indecent exposure, resisting arrest and being a fugitive from justice on court. According to a police report, at about 9:30 a.m. an officer observed DaSilva urinating on a truck in the parking lot of the old Star Market.

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After confronting DaSilva about peeing in public, the officer learned from a database search that he was wanted in Florida on cocaine charges, the report says. DaSilva tried to flee, but the officer caught him, the report says. 

Report: Stolen Car Rips Pay Phone Off Wall After Teens Bail: After three teenagers bailed from a stolen car in East Somerville—in front of a police cruiser—the car rolled into a pay phone, ripping it off the wall, according to a Somerville police report.

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